Closed Finding New Connections

[Hera Athanasiou]

It was weird knowing that their family now consisted of more than just sisters, their mama's latest pregnancy had been twins and she had finally gotten the boy she so desperately wanted. Something about the way the woman looked at her only son broke Hera's heart into tiny pieces. Not for herself but for her younger sisters, especially Nia who'd never gotten much recognition beyond reprimands from their mum. Hera walked down her school's hallways, mind racing with everything that had happened during holiday and that was to happen now in her new school year. She'd entered the second to last year of her schooling here and the Wampus wasn't quite sure how to feel about it.

Hera spotted a girl from her year ahead of her, she also vaguely recalled her being in the Quidditch team. Not that Hera cared for the sport much, but she figured it'd make a good conversation starter? "Hi, you are in our school's Quidditch team, right?" The brunette asked as she caught up to the blonde. Having only transferred to the school last year she'd been far too caught up with her studies to truly make any friends, but this year would be one for new connections.

 

[Kathryne Andrews]

Kit grabbed her quill off the floor, having dropped everything in her hands for no particular reason. Sometimes she just dropped things, which was never good when her hands held a quaffle. The captain gathered up a few other odds and ends when she heard someone speaking to her. Confused, she turned around and smiled at her classmate. She didn't know the girl well, but she thought her name was Hera. "Yeah, I'm captain," she said, looking at the girl. "Why, you looking to try out this year?" she asked curiously. It wasn't the first time someone had come up to her regarding it, but usually, they just showed up on the field. She was still in shock that she had been captain for a year already and got to do it again.

 

[Hera Athanasiou]

Hera gave a smile and shake of her head, "Gods no, not my cup of tea. I was thinking though I do like to take pictures and I was wondering if it was okay to maybe sometime pop by the practice to take some pictures of the team?" She asked sheepishly. It would be cool to just watch the practice too. "I have a few sisters who love Quidditch, well more like one of them does. I think they'll go with my other sisters to New Zealand eventually but would be nice to show them some photos anyways of my school's team." She explained awkwardly, it'd be a nice memory for her too of her school years. "Ah sorry, I'm Hera by the way, you were Kathryne, right?" The brunette introduced herself, suddenly remembering she'd ambushed the captain out of nowhere forgetting to be polite first.

 

[Kathryne Andrews]

Kit was surprised that the girl was interested in taking pictures. She wondered if she worked for the yearbook or was just looking to get action shots. The nice thing with magical photos is that most of them were action shots anyway. “Uh, sure. Are you working on a project or something?” she asked, trying to get specifics. “We just had tryouts so it may take a minute to be in a place to get some good shots depending on what you want,” Kit suggested.

She was a little taken aback when the girl started talking about New Zealand but tried not to interrupt her. “Hera, right. Yeah, I’m Kathryne, but most people call me Kit. Also sorry, back to your sisters - did you say they go to school in New Zealand? My cousins go there… even though they’re American,” she said, a little saddened at the end of her statement. She had been so excited a few years ago to find out she wasn’t the only witch in her family (besides her mom), but her aunt and uncle seemed to be too afraid of people finding out about their “quirky” daughters - as her uncle as had said one time - and shipped them off to a different country. Kit would have much rather preferred to have them go to school with her, but it was obviously out of her control.